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The Legacy of Len Bias

How death of basketball star helped
launch unjust war on drugs

by Jayson Hawkins

On June 19, 1986, Len Bias died of cardiac arrhythmia caused by a cocaine overdose. Bias was a basketball superstar at the University of Maryland and had been drafted second overall by the Boston Celtics only ...

 

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